Shimon Ballas

Shimon Ballas, born in Baghdad on 6 March 1930, a pupil of the Alliance, joined the clandestine Iraqi Communist Party at sixteen and was already publishing in Arabic when he emigrated to Israel in 1951; he lived for more than a year in the Majdal transit camp, near Ashkelon. After the army, he studied Hebrew literature in Tel Aviv, wrote first in Arabic in the communist press, then in Hebrew. A doctor of the Sorbonne in 1970 under the supervision of Maxime Rodinson, he taught Arabic literature in Haifa from 1974, called himself an Arab Jew and died on 29 September 2019.

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• NovelהמעברהShimon Ballas · 1964not translated into EnglishLiterature